The Comet; by the author of All the Talents. Second Edition
London: Stockdale, 1808. Paperback. Disbound. Prose satire. 86 pp. Barrett was an Irish author of mainly satirical and witty material.
London: Stockdale, 1808. Paperback. Disbound. Prose satire. 86 pp. Barrett was an Irish author of mainly satirical and witty material.
London: Stockdale, 1807. Paperback. Disbound. The three dialogues by "Polypus" are a 12th edition, the fourth dialogue appears to be a first edition. Lacks any preliminary pages and Dialogue the Fourth lacks frontispiece. A previous owner has filled in the names that are left blank or that have only initials.....
London: T. Bensley, 1796. First printing. Hardcover. First English language edition. Quarto, 14.5 x 10.5 inches, contemporary half leather and marbled boards, very good, light wear to binding, one text page with small old patch to tear to bottom margin. Facing German and English texts. With five engraved plates by.....
Zanesville: 1913. 7 postcards, very good, light wear and soil, rear sides blank (no messages, stamps or postmarks). Very much like similar images of the Pittsburgh flood of 1936, this one shows Market & 5th, the High School, a decrepit building called the Adams on its marquee, the destruction of.....
London: 1929. Paperback. Large 8vo, printed orange wraps, good with light waterstaining to bottom of first couple pages, light wear, soil and discoloration to wraps. With Geoffrey Household's first published story, under the pseudonym David Hilcot. Household's early novel "Rogue Male" remains among the top tier of English spy thrillers.....
Urbana, IL: 1931. Paperback. Reprint of 1927 edition. 12mo, wraps, very good, minor wear and soil. 41 pp, illustrated.
London: Isaac Pitman, 1920. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, navy blue cloth gilt, very good, minor wear, owner's name and date, 1929. 267 pp, illustrated, including folding charts on gray-blue paper.
New York: Ballantine Books, 2000. Paperback. Pocket paperback, near fine, inscribed by Goldman to "Gia" on an early page. in original mailing envelope addressed in hand to a young woman in Zanesville, OH, with Goldman's name and return address. Envelope somewhat used and worn, postmarked 2014, and probably the book.....
Firenze: Barbera, 1900. Hardcover. 2.5 x 1.75 inches, a miniature in full heavily gilt decorated leather, fine copy but for small owner's name on half title, and small ink marks on frontispiece and title page; in somewhat used original stiff card slipcase with folding flap, printed label on one panel.....
Pittsburgh: The Local History Company, 2004. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, near fine, touch of wear. 142 pp, photos throughout. Uncommon first printing and everyone says this original edition is better in quality than the 2015 reprint.
Munchen: R. Piper und Co., 1922. Hardcover. Neuntes bis Elftes Tausend. Large 8vo, 10.25 x 7.5 inches, cloth backed boards, very good, 1924 non-authorial inscription in German on flyleaf. 302 pp, illustrated in b/w, a study of the depiction of animals in art.
NP: NP, Ca. 1980. Paperback. Seems to be a reprint of the rare 1945 edition. 8vo, wraps, very good, 56 pp, illustrated. Very uncommon. The 394th's emblem was an upside-down "Y" representing the junction of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers to form the Ohio River at Pittsburgh, suggesting that there.....
Indianapolis: Vane A. Jones Co., 1964. First printing. Paperback. 8.5 x 6 inches, wraps, very good, light wear and spottiness to covers. 180 pp, illustrated with lots of pictures of trolleys, street cars, etc. Rare directory of trolley-spotters, who are even more obsessed than train spotters.
London: Arthur H. Stockdale, 1937. Hardcover. Reprint of long poem first self published by the author in Stirling (Scotland) in 1907 and again in 1909. Small 8vo, 7.25 x 5 inches, green boards in plain glassine dust jacket, book very good with light fading and discoloration to covers, foxing and.....
NP: Harry O. Morris, 1983. First printing. Paperback. Glossy eggshell folder measuring 11.25 x 8.75 inches, housing 10 plates in b/w of collages that use Morris's own photographs plus other imagery. Very good. RARE, no copies located by OCLC/Worldcat. Morris is a surrealist artist who has a great reputation as.....
Butler PA; Westmoreland County PA; etc. 1950s-1961. 7 items. "Fallout Protection" measures 7.75 x 5.25 inches, wraps, very good. 46 pp, illustrated. "The Family Fallout Shelter" ca. 1960, 10.5 x 8.25 inches, good with some wear and neat reinforcement along spine, light reinforcement along top edge of front wrap. 31.....
Pittsburgh: CMU; Carnegie Mellon University, (1981). First printing. Paperback. 11 x 8.5 inches, wraps, very good. With inscription from Kimberly to Virginia Lewis, an important curator in Pittsburgh, with short note to her from Kimberly as well. 40 pp, illustrated, very good, light wear.
Halle: Max Niemeyer, 1898. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, half cloth and marbled boards, very good. 444 (2) pp. Part of the Bibliotheca Normannica edited by Hermann Suchier. Text in medieval French, commentary and notes in German.
New York: William Sloane Associates, C. 1947. First printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, book very good, jacket also very good, light wear and soil, spine color dulled. Signed by Van Doren and Pierce on first blank after the flyleaf.
Wien: Braumuller, 1867. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, half cloth and patterned boards, very good, light wear to corners, pages slightly toned. Regarding the great military commander (1583-1684) Albrecht von Wallenstein, who fought on the Catholic side during the Thirty Years' War and was in his old age one of the.....
Amritsar: Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, 1956-1958. Paperback. 2 pamphlets, 7 x 5 inches, wraps, very good, light wear and toning, 22 & 32 pp.
New York: Charles Scribner, 1865. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's green cloth, very good, light wear, bookplate of Pittsburgh botanical bibliophile Rachel McMasters Hunt, another bookplate of Thomas Reynolds, with his signature from Ottawa, 1870, bookplate on flyleaf from the Hunt Library, CMU with their withdrawn stamp. 324 pp. Hunt.....
New York: Charles Scribner, 1864. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's green cloth, very good, light wear, bookplate of Pittsburgh botanical bibliophile Rachel McMasters Hunt, another bookplate of Thomas Reynolds, with his signature from Ottawa, 1870, bookplate on flyleaf from the Hunt Library, CMU with their withdrawn stamp. 314 pp, 1pp.....
Stuttgart: Gedruckt auf Kosten des Litterarischen Vereins, 1860. Hardcover. 8vo, cloth backed boards, very good, light wear to covers, mellowing to spine, contents very good, pages a bit tanned. 703 pp. In prose, in German. Heinrich Steinhöwel (1412 – 1482) was a Swabian author, humanist, and translator who was much.....
Leipzig: A. Deichert, 1930. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, cloth backed boards, very good, light wear. 155 pp, 4 color charts at rear.